Escaping from The Brain

Posted by Graham Rhind
Mar 27, 2013 at 07:29 PM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Oops. Don’t know what happened with that previous reply with no actual
>reply in it.
> >But regarding export by TheBrain, it should be clarified that the
>application does not use a proprietary database or anything that locks
>your information away. The reason, I believe, that it exports a folder
>for each “thought” is because a thought can hold all kinds of other
>files as attachments: Word documents, PDFs, images, etc… So when it
>exports, it needs a landing place for all those attachments, and it
>would be utter chaos if they didn’t go into those discrete folders.

Yes, that’s a good point Stephen. Mind you, I still question why the thought html within the exported thought folder doesn’t share the thought’s title. That would make life easier.

>I can see, however, the dilemma you have, Graham, trying to transfer so
>much information.
> >If you do not have attachments, but only notes within each thought, you
>might try experimenting with using the selection function and copying
>“text outline with notes,” and see if there is some way to make that
>work. You wouldn’t do it with the whole brain, but in smaller chunks.
>Probably not really any better, but worth a little experimentation,
>maybe.

Thanks. I don’t have attachments, but I do have a lot of html formatting which gets lost in those “copy as ...” options. It gets data out, but it would mean more cut and paste than when exporting as html. I can export as Simple html from The Brain and import those files into CT, but then each topic name would need changing and every internal link re-creating, and I was rather hoping there was a quicker way. After all, I’ve only another 15 years to go before retirement ...

Graham